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Pizarro, Francisco 1476-
Military officer; born in Estremadura, Spain, in 1476.
Low-born, he received little care from his parents, and was a swineherd in his earlier years.
He went with Ojeda from Santo Domingo to Central America in 1510, and assisted Vasco de Balboa Nuñez in establishing the settlement at Darien.
Trafficking with the natives on the Isthmus of Panama, in 1515, he settled near the city of Panama founded there, and engaged in the cultivation of land by Indian slaves.
With a priest and another illiterate adventurer named Almagro, he explored the southern coast, in 1524, with 100 followers in one vessel and seventy in another, under the last-named person.
Their explorations were fruitless, except in information of Peru, the land of gold.
He went as far as the borders of that land, plundered the people, carried some of them away, and took them to Spain in the summer of 1528.
His creditors imprisoned him at Seville, but the King ordered his release and receive